Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago University, the president's house was not in commission. So Presi dent Robert Maynard Hutchins, 30, obtained from Yale last June, to be inducted in November, is living temporarily as the house guest of Harold Higgins Swift, potent meat packer and Chicago Trustee. A studio for Mrs. Hutchins, who sculps, was improvised over the Swift garage. Max Epstein, chairman of General American Tank Car Corp., who donated and for whom was named the Epstein Dispensary, has given some $1,000,000 for an art center. For teachers and pictures the university must look elsewhere...
...Utilities Associates, a group of light and power companies operating chiefly in New England. Out of all the rumors and rumbles, however, salient emerging points were: 1) That J. P. Morgan & Co. has undoubtedly become acutely interested in light and power; 2) That in nine months it has made swift and certain progress; 3) But that the public utility situation, even in New York State alone, should certainly not be interpreted in terms of Mr. Morgan's throwing the switches, breaking the currents...
...bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president. The directorate included George M. Reynolds, Stanley Field, Charles F. Glore, D. R. McLennan, Eugene M. Stevens, Edward F. Swift, F. Edson White. Christened Continental Chicago Corp., and with an initial financing of $65,000,000, the new company was designed for an ultimate capitalization of $500,000,000. Continental-Illinois Co. (the investment affiliate of Continental-Illinois Bank) took 1,000,000 common shares of the 1,750,000 initially...
Many a race between shadowy contraband-carrying rumrunners and swift, searchlight playing patrol boats has been run on the narrow Detroit river. Last week 400,000 persons lined the river's edge to watch millionaires race millionaires...
...itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for the Navy at Akron will be fitted not only to carry planes similarly but also to haul them into her hull. Values of the procedure are: in war, dirigibles might carry swift planes to scenes of action; after sortie the planes could return to the mother ship for fuel, ammunition, sleep for the pilot. In commerce similar refueling possibilities might be valuable. Planes could make ground deliveries from the airship, later catching up with her in her flight, bringing up passengers, mail...